After watching so many demo's at Gencon, I decided to create these playmats in my free time* as a demo tool to help new players learn the game. I did these pro-bono, but have been known to accept gifts of chocolate as tokens of appreciation.

I was originally thinking to sell the Intermediate version via the website... However, we don't want to inhibit anyone from being able to play this wonderful game to the best of their ability! Thus we are providing a FREE electronic PDF version of all playmats.

If you've been to Gencon in the last two years, the first group are the playmats we use at the booth for demos as well as for the Novice tournaments. They contain the icons, some spells and SAI for a single race under a simplified rule set (color-less dice, no racial abilities, no 8th face effects). They also contain a cheat sheet for the turn sequence and how to resolve all the actions you can take during that turn.

The second group are the Intermediate playmats that we use for the Intermediate tournaments. They are still single race, but contain the full ruleset for that race (but no expansions,like the new terrains).**

The intention is not that you use these forever, but that you will eventually begin playing multi-racial armies and not need these mats anymore.

If you have access to a plotter, these will print just fine or you can take them to OfficeDepot and print these in B&W for around $3.

It definitely is not cheating. Our events don't require that you have every last little rule memorized. In face many people carry the rulebook or a customized spell list or army placement cards with them, just to make sure they don't forget anything. Even the most experienced players will look up an odd SAI that they don't play a lot. Better safe than sorry.

What you might find is that people will make assumptions about your skill level, but that's not a bad thing if it makes them under estimate you. _________________Multiplayer Champion Gencon11/Battlefest Champion(tied) GenCon10/World Champion GenCon07/National Champion Origins05/Intermediate Champion GenCon02/Novice Champion Origins99

Thank you so much MissTiffany for the great playmats! I was one of the newbies at GENCON and have tried to play at home with dice in one hand and the ruleboook in the other and it was a bit awkward to say the least. I've printed out a small mat on my home printer and will head out to Office Depot this afternoon for the bigger version!

BTW, for any fellow Firefox users, the rules box comes out a bit mangled looking but perfect in Explorer.

Those are meant to be printed in color. So the Firewalkers is red and blue, the Frostwings is blue and black. I can see what would happen if it was printed in black and white._________________You can never have too many dice.
First Place at the first ever Daemon Diceâ„¢ sealed starter tournament.
Battlefest tied for first GenCon 2012
Single Race Champion GenCon 2008-2009, Sealed Box Champion GenCon 2007,2009,
My collection is 21,500 Dragon Diceâ„¢, 20,000 Daemon Diceâ„¢, and others (too many to count).

They were designed to be printed at 22 by 17 (which is a standard paper size)

but people have scaled it to 8 by 11 with some success._________________Multiplayer Champion Gencon11/Battlefest Champion(tied) GenCon10/World Champion GenCon07/National Champion Origins05/Intermediate Champion GenCon02/Novice Champion Origins99